Leaving the open desert east of Yermo the eastbound Trona coal buckets prepare to enter the confines of Afton Canyon, passing the canyon's west entrance on a beautiful December afternoon.

Union Pacific's eastbound empty Trona coal buckets roll through Nebo (West Daggett) on BNSF's Needles Subdivision with a clean UP 1996 (Southern Pacific heritage) as its lead motor. The train, exe... (more)

With Southern Pacific daylight red and orange up front UP's eastbound empty Trona 'coal buckets' have ducked into the siding at Jim Grey to meet BNSF's westbound Boron local, very fittingly utiliz... (more)